Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Posseckstown (moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Posseckstown (moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42112, -6.82185
- SMR number
- ME048-040----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a level low-lying landscape. An aerial photograph (GB89.AM.32) shows the cropmark of a subtriangular enclosure (dims c. 50m x c. 50m) defined by a fosse feature. It is plough-levelled, and is not visible on any other aerial images.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.